CINE
ANNOUNCES THE 2006 MASTERS SERIES GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD
WINNERS
GALA EVENT ALSO INCLUDES
PANEL ON FAIR USE INITIATIVE, “5 ON 5
FOR 5” PITCH COMPETITION, AND EXECUTIVE NETWORKING SESSIONS
(WASHINGTON) – CINE announced the
2006 Masters Series Golden Eagle Award winners on April
18 during its gala Annual Awards Event at the world headquarters
of Discovery Communications. Seven films received the
awards, which recognize excellence in broadcast, non-broadcast,
news, independent and student productions. CINE Masters
Series Awards went to the following productions and individuals:
- Professional Telecast Non-Fiction Division:
Producer/Director Roger Weisberg received an award
for Public Policy Productions’ Waging a Living.
- Professional Telecast News Division:
Producer Craig Delaval captured an award for MSNBC’s MSNBC
Special “Coming Home.”
- Professional Telecast Fiction Division:
Producer Alan Barnette received an award for A&E
Networks’ Faith of My Fathers.
- Professional Non-Telecast Division:
Producer Walter Baas garnered an award for The American
Water Works Association’s Inside the Weather.
- Independent Division: Director Jehane
Noujaim and Producer Rosadel Varela received an award
for Noujaim Films’ Control Room.
- Student Division (CINE Award of Excellence):
Producer/Director/Writer/Editor John Dolan captured
an award for Chapman University’s The Martyr.
In addition to the Masters Series Awards,
CINE also presented a Special Media Award to Producers
George Casey and Paul Novros, for the National Geographic
Giant Screen Films and Graphic Films’ IMAX production, Forces
of Nature.
The professional CINE Masters Series Awards
are sponsored by Henninger Media Services. Henninger,
a longtime sponsor of CINE, awarded $25,000 worth of
in-kind services to be shared among the Masters Series
Award winners. In addition, Eastman Kodak continued its
tradition of supporting student and emerging filmmakers
by sponsoring the CINE Award of Excellence, given to
the best student film of 2005. The winner, John Dolan
of Chapman University, was also given a $1000 product
grant from Kodak, while the runner-up, Brenda Brkusic
(also of Chapman University) received a $500 grant.
The awards ceremony was part of the 47th
Annual CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Awards Gala,
hosted by CINE sponsor Discovery Communications. NBC
News Today Show National Correspondent Bob Dotson
served as Master of Ceremonies for the Event, at which
two-time Academy Award® winning filmmaker Barbara
Kopple presented the CINE Lifetime Achievement Award
to pioneer filmmaker Albert Maysles, often called the “dean
of documentary filmmakers.”
Earlier in the day, Mr. Maysles served
as a member of a panel discussion entitled “Fair
Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance: Year One of
The Fair Use Initiative.” Sponsored by the
Eastman Kodak Company, this seminar investigated the
progress in industry practices since the launch of the “Documentary
Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair
Use,” a document that outlines approaches to fair
use of copyrighted material. Mr. Maysles was joined on
the panel by Pat Aufderheide, Professor in the School
of Communication and Director of the Center for Social
Media at American University; Gordon Quinn, award-winning
filmmaker of Vietnam Long Time Coming and Stevie;
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of
the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic
at American University; and Tamara Gould, Vice President
for Distribution of the Independent Television Service.
CINE also hosted its annual “5 on
5 for 5” seminar, an exciting event where five
filmmakers had five minutes to pitch their program ideas
to a panel of five industry executives and a live audience.
The winning filmmaker, Barbara Jones of Sailor Jones
Media, pitched a program concept called Water Boys and
received a check for $500 from the event’s sponsor,
the Discovery Health Channel, as well as the opportunity
to present the winning pitch to programming executives
at Discovery Communications. The panel of executives
was moderated by Donald Thoms, Vice President, Health& Fitness,
Discovery Networks, U.S. Production, and Vice President
of the CINE Board of Directors. The panelists were: Margaret
Burnette Stogner. Founder, Blue Bear Productions; David
McKillop, Vice President, Factual, Discovery Networks,
U.S. Production; John Potthast, Executive Producer, WETA;
Wendy Douglas, Executive Producer, Discovery Health Channel;
and Michael Klein, Vice President, Lifestyle, Discovery
Networks, U.S. Production.
The afternoon’s program concluded
with a series of well-attended and highly informative executive
sit-down/networking sessions where ideas were shared among
filmmakers and Discovery Communications executives, including
Stephen Burns, Executive Vie President, U.S. Networks Production;
Eileen O’Neill, Vice President and General Management
Director, Discovery Health Channel & Fit TV; Rita Mullin,
Program Development, Discovery Health Development; Toni
Egger, Vice President, Development, U.S. Networks, Science
and Military Channels; Sean Gallagher, Senior Vice President,
Production and Development, The Learning Channel; and Bill
Smee, Vice President, Production, U.S. Networks, Current
Affairs.
For
information contact the
CINE Office
202-785-1136
1112 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20036
info@cine.org
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